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Thought about improving Mac OS X porting project

.... what about to start working differently ?

Proposal:

- before to consider any task is started, at least 2 people must be identified as working on it. No problem if one is a very good developer, and the second a poor one: work together, and share the knowledge.

- document the task: ask questions, note carefully the progression in the ideas, questions and answers how helped, and document the design ( no need to document the code when the design is given ... )

Note: current specs need some rework. We are not working for the NASA ;-)


- they are no dumb questions, and often simple questions help to solve important issues


Work this way will

- avoid Bus Factor effect

- create synergy between people, and valorize everybody

- improve the efficiency of the work

- free the code: documentation always helps. And we are working for a Free Software, aren't we ?

Doing that (please propose if you have better ideas), I bet new devs will join the OpenOffice.org project .. and maybe the Mac porting project ;-)

Let's try ?

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publié par ericb @ dimanche, octobre 07, 2007